Dissection of the genetic architecture of body weight in chicken reveals the impact of epistasis on domestication traits

Genetics

Volumn 179, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1591-1599

  Le Rouzic, Arnaud ^a,b   Álvarez Castro, José M ^a,c   Carlborg, Örjan ^a,c  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CHICKEN; DOMESTICATION; EPISTASIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEREDITY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ANIMAL; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT;

GALLUS GALLUS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; BODY WEIGHT; CHICKENS; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; PHENOTYPE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 52049106813     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.108.089300     Document Type: Article

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